What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?

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eXistenZ - Got a lot of that really gnarly Cronenberg-ian imagery and distortion of reality, but there's way too many plot twists in the back half for the narrative to really hit like it could. A lot of great actors here, but none of them at their best.

Silent Running - Love the chunky 1970s futurism, Bruce Dern, and the overall message. It is a bit heavy-handed, though, and while I like the idea of hippie botanist Dern hanging out with 3 robots on an empty spaceship, I don't think it does quite enough to make it fully engaging during those parts.

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GOAT has an absurd amount of product placement. The products aren't even stylized to fit the world. DualSense controllers and a straight up PS5, multiple Mercedes-Benz's with the logo taking up most of the screen, a lot of PLEZi (Steph Curry's verison of PRIME), Under Armour sneakers and clothing, even a Sony Xperia phone shows up. I love it all. Product placement is so fun to me and the movie is pretty good as well. It's a pretty standard story but the animation is nice.

I forgot to watch Fixed from Sony so I guess that's next up.

I watched Fixed. It has a lot of cartoon dog butthole and balls in it. It apparently has hand-drawn animation but it looks more like computer animation trying to look hand-drawn. When I first heard of Fixed I was immediately reminded of the 2006 MTV2 show Where My Dogs At? I enjoyed the show more. Pretty much only thing I liked about Fixed is that it feels like it's from twenty years ago.

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Sanctified - Punches well above its weight in both score and cinematography for being such a low budget western. Also a prime example of a faith-based film that doesn't have a terrible (and cloying or saccharine) screenplay.

Dr. Strangelove - Ostensibly a first watch, since all I really remembered from a single viewing 25-30 years ago is Pickens on the bomb and "You can't fight in here! This is the war room!" (Which, to be fair, is one of the greatest lines ever written.)

It's almost impossible to tell that Sellers' three characters are the same actor, but it's George C. Scott that steals the show for me. "He'll see the big board!" is an all-time line reading.

Ripper's rants also sound an awful lot like RFK, Jr. these days.

Tropic Thunder - First revisit since theaters. My opinion is largely unchanged. Lots of people could have played Ben Stiller's role, but only Ben Stiller could have written and directed it. Terrific high-concept comedy with some brilliant performances, but it plays the really over the top stuff just a couple too many times. It's almost on a schedule. Every 15 minutes something so stupid happens it should stop the movie dead, but they've been keeping thing just silly enough so it doesn't feel that out of place.

The Dam Busters - Not exactly a thrilling film, but it is an interesting and engaging one. Similar to Oppenheimer if that movie were only about the development of the bomb. A solid pen and paper thriller until it becomes a sturdy airforce flick.

Obsession - YouTuber to feature horror filmmaker pipeline remains strong. I've been a fan of Curry Barker's comedy skits for a few years at this point, but only recently started to delve into his horror work, and this guy has what it takes. Powerhouse performance from Inde Navarrette that will worm its way under your skin and stay there for days.

Superbad - Holds up! The outdated language gets a pass because of the accuracy, and the movie makes it a point of the climax that their plan is ill-advised, shitty, and, most importantly, doesn't work.

Raymond & Ray - I bet this really cooks as a stage play. As a movie it is kind of flat and not particularly interesting, but the performances are solid across the board.